Spain Living Guide

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: June 2026

Welcome to Spain Living Guide (https://spainlivingguide.com). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, particularly in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Spanish Organic Law on Data Protection and Guarantee of Digital Rights (LOPDGDD), and Google AdSense program policies.

1. Who We Are (Data Controller)

Spain Living Guide is an independent information platform owned and operated by:

  • Data Controller: Daniel Aznar
  • Location: Valencia, Spain
  • Website URL: https://spainlivingguide.com
  • Contact Email: spainlivingguide@gmail.com

2. Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising Disclosures

This website partners with Google AdSense to deliver advertisements to our visitors. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses tracking technologies to serve ads on this site.

Mandatory Google AdSense Disclosures:

  • Third-Party Vendors: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to Spain Living Guide or other websites on the internet.
  • Personalized Advertising: Google’s use of advertising cookies (including the DoubleClick/DART cookie) enables it and its partners to serve personalized advertisements to our users based on their browsing history across Spain Living Guide and/or other sites on the Internet.
  • How to Opt Out: Users may opt out of personalized advertising at any time. You can manage and opt out of Google’s personalized ads by visiting:
  • Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) opt-out page:

3. Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

A. Contact Forms

When you submit an inquiry through our contact forms, we collect the personal data you explicitly provide:

  • Your name
  • Your email address
  • The content of your message
  • Purpose & Legal Basis: We use this data solely to respond to your inquiries. The legal basis for this processing is your explicit consent upon hitting “Submit.”
  • Retention: This data is retained securely in our email infrastructure to maintain proper communication records.

B. Google Analytics (Website Traffic Analysis)

We use Google Analytics to monitor and analyze web traffic and understand how users interact with our content. Google Analytics collects pseudonymous data, including:

  • Page views, navigation paths, and time spent on pages
  • Device types, operating systems, and browser information
  • Approximate geographic location (city/country level derived from anonymized IP addresses)
  • Data Retention: 2 months to 2 years.
  • Google’s Privacy Framework: For more information on how Google handles this data, please visit Google’s Privacy Policy.

4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you load our website. They help us ensure security, track analytical performance, and enable ad delivery.

Categories of Cookies Used:

  1. Essential Cookies: Strictly necessary to enable core site functionality, layout rendering, and security.
  2. Analytical Cookies: Set by Google Analytics to help us evaluate traffic metrics and user engagement.
  3. Advertising/Marketing Cookies: Set by Google AdSense and its approved third-party vendors to serve relevant, personalized ads and track performance.

Cookie Consent Management:

Upon your first visit to Spain Living Guide, a certified Consent Management Platform (CMP) banner will appear, giving you the legally required option to Accept All, Reject All, or Configure individual cookie choices. You can also block or clear cookies via your internet browser settings (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, etc.).

5. Data Retention Periods

We only retain personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy:

  • Contact Form Inquiries: Kept for as long as necessary to fully resolve your request and maintain professional records.
  • Google Analytics Data: Kept according to the standard rolling period of 14 months (or up to 2 years depending on policy changes).
  • Advertising Tracking Identifiers: Cookies set by Google AdSense typically expire within 1 day to 1 year depending on the specific ad vendor profile.

6. Your Rights Under GDPR (For EEA and UK Residents)

If you reside within the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom, you hold comprehensive rights under the GDPR and Spanish protection laws regarding your personal data. You have the right to:

  • Access: Request copies of your personal data held by us.
  • Rectification: Request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): Request that we erase your personal data under certain legal conditions.
  • Restrict Processing: Request that we restrict the processing of your personal data.
  • Object to Processing: Object to our processing of your personal data, particularly for direct marketing or automated profiling.
  • Data Portability: Request that we transfer the collected data to another organization or directly to you.
  • Withdraw Consent: Withdraw your consent at any time where data processing is based entirely on your consent.

To exercise any of these legal rights, please contact us directly at: spainlivingguide@gmail.com. We will respond to your request within 30 days as mandated by law. You also have the right to lodge a formal complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos – AEPD) if you believe your rights have been violated.

7. Data Security

We apply industry-standard technical and organizational security measures—including SSL/TLS encryption across our entire domain—to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, modification, disclosure, or accidental destruction.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify or update this Privacy Policy at any time to maintain alignment with evolving legal frameworks, technological adjustments, or AdSense policy requirements. Any changes will be published instantly on this page with an updated “Last Updated” date at the top. We encourage you to review this page periodically.